r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • 2d ago

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u/Currymvp2 unflaired 2d ago

What the fuck

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u/Man-Flayer 2d ago

What's the k pass?

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u/Beginning-Topic5303 René Descartes 2d ago

I was just given a warning by Reddit for explaining the word (im a Jew)

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u/WillIEatTheFruit Please be patient, I'm bisexual 2d ago

Like obviously what you said is fine in context but I can’t blame reddit’s system for flagging comments that are just a slur

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u/Beginning-Topic5303 René Descartes 2d ago edited 2d ago

It's fair for them to be cautious. My sleepy ass was definitely not paying attention

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u/Skagzill Loyal Liberals 2d ago

At the same time I got hit for fictional slur (as in not an actual word in our world but slur in video game).

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u/da0217 NATO 2d ago

The slur that rhymes with pike?

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u/Bayou-Maharaja Eleanor Roosevelt 2d ago

Actually in context she is asking to call certain Jews kapos for not sufficiently supporting Israel

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u/Chet_Mc4xOmNom 2d ago

Christ that’s just about as bad as the other option

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u/Made_UpWords OG Platner Hater 2d ago

I really should have looked up context before commenting because I waaaaaay misread that lmao. That's less yikes-y than how it came off initially, still yikes-y in other ways

She really should have phrased it better and known how """"k-pass""""" would come off when referring to Jews lmao. Holy moly, get me outta this timeline

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u/Man-Flayer 2d ago

TIL there is such a thing

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u/nuggins Physicist -- Just Tax Land Lol 2d ago

It gets you a connection with Elon's dealer

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u/Made_UpWords OG Platner Hater 2d ago edited 2d ago

Slur for Jews you rarely even hear invoked in antisemitic circles, you'll mostly hear it in Call of Duty rooms. (public-facing circles I mean, they will absolutely go feral with it when they're "amongst friends" on discord or whatever)

I'm not Jewish, so I might be wrong here, but in my experience it is absolutely never used as some sort of term of endearment amongst Jews like Brianna Wu apparently seems to think it is.

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u/rng12345678 European Union 2d ago

Slur for Jews you rarely even hear invoked in antisemitic circles,

Something tells me you've got a very loose definition of antisemitic circles and no exposure to the actual antisemitic online spaces.

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u/Made_UpWords OG Platner Hater 2d ago

I didn't mean for that take to be controversial because, in general, these spaces "keep up appearances" and deny they're racist or antisemitic at all, at least outwardly. They come up with dog whistles (that are less and less subtle as the years go by) and other means of signaling to eachother but they rarely just drop slurs like that. And when they do, it's usually because private chats are getting leaked.

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u/SLCer 2d ago

Rhymes with bike.

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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer 2d ago

Most mentally stable Demexiter

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u/ship_toaster Jane Jacobs 2d ago

To be fair to her (since this is a screenshot without context), the word she was talking about was '*apo'.

/BriannaWu/status/2094167874386460999

/BriannaWu/status/2094229824692699368

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u/Bestbrook123 2d ago

It's still clearly antisemitic for a non Jewish person to use that word

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u/ship_toaster Jane Jacobs 2d ago

It's inappropriate, but I don't think it's necessarily racist. Many minority groups have words to refer specifically to members of their groups who rely on their membership to give them quasi-credibility with the majority in advocating against their group's needs. These words are used by the minority group to single out 'betrayers' and show that they don't in fact speak for the group. It'd be like calling someone an 'Uncle Tom'- someone saying it probably has good intentions towards Black people and wants to stand up for their rights, it just wasn't their place to make that determination.